Alacahöyük

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Alacahöyük

mound to the north of the settlement of Boğazköy (central Anatolia, Turkey) with archaeological phases from the Chalcolithic period (4,000–3,000 B.C.) to the Phrygian-Lydian period (7th to 6th century B.C.). Systematic excavations at Alacahöyük have been conducted since 1935 by the Turkish archaeologist H. Koçay and others. A splendid necropolis dating from the early Bronze Age (3,000 B.C.) was discovered, which had contained burials in dirt pits and an inventory of precious plates and dishes, weapons, ritual objects, and ornaments. The remains of monumental defensive walls with figures of sphinxes on the gates, a temple, and other architectural structures date from the Hittite period.

The topics discussed include evolutions and temporal delimitation of Bronze Age world systems in western Asia and the Mediterranean, a liminal view of the Late Bronze Age world system, negotiating metal and the metal form in the royal tombs of Alacahoyuk in north-central Anatolia, assessing the evidence for the long-distance exchange of silk in later prehistoric Eurasia, and the emergence of Mycenaean culture as a phenomenon of globalization.

The exhibitions features kaftans, jewellery and accessories that once belonged to members of the Ottoman household, the majority of which come from the Topkapi Palace Museum, artifacts from the ancient past of Izmir, the former Greek and Roman city, its monuments, carvings and most typical art works, and objects from the necropolis unearthed in the site of Alacahoyuk in Anatolia in the third millennium BC.

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